ENTS, I am greatly discouraged by the recent trend to only post links to photographs on outside photo sites like photobucket rather than including them embedded in the posts themselves or sending them as attachments. I have spent much of the last five years as webmaster pestering people to include photos with their posts. It has woked with more photos being submitted to illustrate the articles and field trip reports. Recently there also has been complaints about the large size of some images. The change to external repositories may be related to those complaints. Those are also valid comments. Can't we reach a compromise?
If you have photos from a field trip, please post some to the discussion list. The reports beg for photos to illustrate them and going to a secondary link is not the best. Instead of posting large photos or large groups of photos post a selection of smaller key images. These can be intermixed with links to large images on Photo bucket or to galleries that contain more images from the trip. Please include at least some smaller photos with your posts if possible. I mentioned irfanview to reduce the image sizes. This discussion is posted on the Google site in the "Pages" section called "Discussion List Posts and the Website." I recommend that if you are going to make use of an outside photo site that you at least post selected photos be reduced or resized. Those reduced to 600 x 480 pixels they should be around <100 kb each, and if they are resized to 500 x 375 pixels they should be around 65 kb, and 400 x 300 (to serve as thumbnails) are around 45k. (or even smaller as thumbnails) I know these are somewhat mixed signals from people in ENTS, but consider this proposed compromise. Not to pick on Barry, but simply as an example, for the four posts he made today with links to Photo bucket, one or two smaller images embedded into each post or attached to it would have been great to include to compliment the Photobucket gallery. Ed Frank "To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again" Ralph Waldo Emerson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org You are subscribed to the Google Groups "ENTSTrees" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
